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Lionsgate enlists Starbreeze to make a virtual realty game based on John Wick film

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Lionsgate is teaming up with Starbreeze and others to make a virtual reality game based on Keanu Reeves’ John Wick action flick.

The deal shows that a few Hollywood and gaming powerhouses believe that virtual reality will emerge as the next big video game platform. Starbreeze will target the HTC Vive VR platform, which is based on the Steam VR technology created by Valve. John Wick might make very good shooter material, as Reeves plays an ex-hit man who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters who took everything from him. He shows no mercy, and he fires a lot of guns in all directions, even where he is not looking.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.